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The Perfect Storm – Does Washington's 2010 vintage have time to recover?
Perhaps, but a multitude of factors make it seem increasingly unlikely that many of the area's growers will be able to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. This spring saw bud break in many areas thirty or more days ahead of schedule due to unseasonably warm weather. This was followed by an unusually cool April through June – the coolest since the 1960s according to Dr. Gregory V. Jones at the Department of Environmental Studies at Southern Oregon University.
Just how bad is it? In some areas of Walla Walla and Chelan, veraison has yet to take place. Even on notoriously warm Red Mountain, certain grapes have yet to turn color. At present, most vineyard managers I talk to say they are fourteen days behind schedule. Several report being even further back. Some growers report that their grapes are not yet above fifteen brix. If grapes ripen at 1.5 brix per week at, say, eighty-degree temperatures, this means an additional six weeks would be needed to reach 24 brix. This is assuming temperatures reach these levels (or higher) throughout this period. This could happen - but many of the state's growers now need it to happen.
Many vineyards have been dropping fruit to try to catch up. In some cases, the decision to do so was made easier by wineries dropping contracts due to the poor economy.
The low levels of heat have not been the only problem. Adding to the difficulties have been unusual amounts of precipitation in eastern Washington. Numerous growers have reported issues controlling mildew in the vineyard. Additionally, shatter in some areas of Walla Walla was more significant than initially realized.
What could the impacts of the unusual growing season be? It could be a near 'perfect storm' for Washington's growers and winemakers. Many vineyards throughout the state were not in existence in 1999, so experience with this type of adversity is limited in some cases. Additionally, many of the state's new winemakers have been riding the success of excellent vintages since 2005. While people often say that 'wine is made in the vineyard,' many of the state's new winemakers have no experience dealing with a 'winemaker's vintage' where they must exert their expertise to produce quality wine. 2010 is a year that will strongly favor experienced growers and winemakers. Warmer areas will fare better than cooler areas. Of course, in terms of grapes, late ripening varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, stand to be the most affected if conditions don't improve.
Throughout the growing season, many have been recollecting the 1999 vintage – a year that was quite cool but that ultimately produced outstanding wines. The recipe that year was a warm September. If the start of this month is any indication, the cavalry might not be coming. At this point, the effects of a cool season can be corrected if, and only if, there is an extended warm stretch in September such as was seen in 1999. However, a cool September or everyone's biggest fear – an early frost – would spell disaster. There is still time for the 2010 vintage to right itself, but the window is closing very, very quickly.
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Just walked through several vineyards on Red Mountain yesterday. Syrah is two weeks away... Cab is 3-4 weeks away. I've got growers near Zillah and Grandview telling me that things are late, but it's going to be OK. The Syrah was getting sweet and the cab had a little tartness and still had green seeds, but little rain and temperatures in the mid 70s is still going to push things to ripen in most areas. We might be picking into November (as long as there isn't a freeze) so we'll all be making wines with 13-14% alcohol this year! I feel sorry for Oregon as most of their grapes just finished veraison and they would need another 4-5 weeks to ripen...ReplyDelete
Steve, thanks for the update! Indeed it will be a good year for lower alcohol wines. Fingers and toes are crossed!ReplyDelete
Man, people are probably shitting brix over this. I hope we get it turned around.ReplyDelete
I've been hearing similar concerns up and down the west coast -- California is behind, as well, although it might not be as extreme of an issue for them.ReplyDelete
I wonder how things are going up in B.C. Did the Okanagan have a similar late start with a cool summer?
CindyW, Haven't heard much from folks in the Okanagan. Will reach out to them.ReplyDelete
Dr. Jones had an interesting comment to me when we were communicating about the post where he said, "...much of the western US has seen the highest week-to-week and vintage-to-vintage variability in climate over the last 2-4 years than anytime since record keeping began."
Clive, that may be the best/worst pun I have ever heard!ReplyDelete
Steve, very interesting stuff from Cliff Mass. Thanks for the link.ReplyDelete
- Ben HerdSeptember 9, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Perfect storm is right...especially with an already weak economy this could really push some Washington winemakers over the edge. I hope things get better! Come on sun!ReplyDelete
Interesting article and from what I have seen out there, generally accurate. I hope those with cooler sites didn't wait too long to appropriately thin. Here on Snipes Mountain we are 99% through verasion on all varieties and 100% through on most, including the late ripening port varieties, mouvedre, cab, and riesling (we grow over 30 vinifera altogether). No doubt we are around 10-14 days later this year (depending on the variety) but our warm, virtually frost free site allows me to have no worries. Looking forward to the harvest as are our 20+ wineries we source fruit to.ReplyDelete
Todd, thanks for the update from Snipes Mountain. Glad to hear that things are looking good there.ReplyDelete
Thanks Crescentia. You keep reading em and I'll keep writing em! :)ReplyDelete
- Trey BuschSeptember 10, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Sean, always appreciate your articles. This one is a little too "Doomsday" for me. As you know, you never call a vintage until the grapes are in (good or bad). The last thing the WA Wine Industry needs is people in the business talking down this vintage before the grapes are in the door. Look at what happened to Oregon in 07. Some great wines were made even though the vintage was panned across the board, mostly in September...people repeat the first thing they hear. Even you pointed to 99, a very cool vintage that made amazing wines.ReplyDelete
I spoke with Gary Figgins in a store the other day and asked him how he thought things looked out there. I even asked him if he had ever seen a vintage like this one...his answer. "Yeah, from 1977 through 1997". He said some of his best Cabs came off at 22.5-23 brix in cool years. He has picked as late as Nov 15th.
Not that I am NOT worried about this harvest, I think most winemakers are on edge. Your assessment that vineyards are "behind normal" is correct, assuming normal is the past 12 years. My big worries are late ripening varietals like Petit Verdot and Cab Franc in cooler sites. Most vineyard owners I am working with have been proactive in dropping fruit, as far back as early August. And the shatter that you mentioned in some WW vineyards was natures way of thinning for us. My Blue Mtn. Vineyard fruit will be 1.5 tons per acre at the most. Not great for the farmer (his costs for farming are the same if it was 4 tons per acre), and not great for me (production will be down because of this)but we can at least ensure we did everything we needed to in order to ripen our fruit here.
I think most of the better vineyard owners/managers and winemakers in the state will come through this vintage just fine. And these days, that number is a majority of growers and winemakers, not a minority. As the quality of WA wines attest!
In conclusion, let's not count our chickens until they hatch...or something like that!
Hi Trey, despite laying out some potential Doomsday scenarios, I actually still have pretty high hopes for this vintage for a couple of reasons. First, I believe that the skilled growers and the skilled winemakers will, as always, be just fine. As you said, that's a pretty large number. There will be lots and lots of good wine to be had - just perhaps not from almost everybody such as in years like 2007 where many say "If you couldn't make good wine that year...". Second, I think it will be interesting to see a lot of wines with lower, more moderate alcohol levels than we have seen in recent years. Washington made really, really good wines with alcohol levels in the high thirteens and low fourteens for many years. It will be interesting to see what this looks like now. Who knows? It may even lead to some downstream changes in style.ReplyDelete
I do think the comparison with 1999 is instructive. The vintage got a low 'vintage rating' from Wine Spectator, yet many of the wines I have had from that vintage are just stunners, including recent wines from Seven Hills Winery and Soos Creek. A number of winemakers I have spoken to have even referred to 1999 as one of their favorite vintages.
So don't worry, I'm still waiting for the chickens! Nature has a way of taking care of itself. Thanks for the comment.
FYI - 4 Brix pop in my Syrah block at Red Willow in the last 10 days. 21 and change right now. Already incredible flavors. Seeing great flavors in many vineyards, much more so than previous years at this stage. Extremely optimistic if the weather holds and we don't get an early freeze.ReplyDelete
Greg, very good to hear. Thanks for the update!ReplyDelete
- Trey BuschSeptember 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Well said Sean. The 99's are stunners. Ask Rick Small at Woodward to open ANY of his 99's, whites included, and they will blow you away.ReplyDelete
Also, nobody is talking about 2008 as a cool vintage, when, in fact, it was very cool by the standards of 2001-2009. I went back to my harvest records, and my first fruit wasn't picked until October 1st, Va Piano Merlot in Walla Walla, along with Double River Merlot across the street on the same day. My last fruit was brought in on November 1st, Blue Mtn. Cab Sauv in Walla Walla and Chelle den Millie Cab Franc in Prosser. 30 day harvest is certainly compressed, but we only crushed 34 tons. This year I plan on bringing in between 35 and 40 depending on yields. I expect Blue Mtn Cab will pick off earlier than 08 as yields are WAY down, both due to shatter as well as intentionally dropping fruit. Petit Verdot and Cab Franc are 1 cluster per shoot.
Going back to 2008, all my wines are in bottle, and my Syrah is 13.9% alc, my red table wine is 13.7%, and both my higher end red blends, bottled Aug 31, were 14.2%. Certainly lower than my 07's and 09's. And yes, those are real numbers (not taking advantage of the .5% to 1% the BATF allows on labeling). I invite you to WW soon to taste with me as the Archimage, Illusionist, and Levitation from 2008 are stunning wines (you have actually tasted the 08 Sepllbinder, in your Top 100 wines issue this month).
To wrap it up, short of an early freeze, this could be a really great vintage. I expect nothing less from myself or my growers, so I plan on "willing" it so.
One reason so many winemakers contract fruit from a variety of AVAs is because WA has the diversity to handle a wide range of vintage conditions. I'll bet Red Mt. and Wahluke grapes really shine this year, and maybe at sub-15% alcohol levels in the wines. Cooler sites such as Chelan and Col. Gorge may have to scramble. In a hot year, the Yakima valley has the edge; I don't think that being "late" – whatever that means – is any indication of ultimate quality. If anything, as in 1999, which I defended from the start as a fine vintage, being late means (potentially) more hangtime – which is generally a plus. So the real unknown is simply when the first big freeze will hit. Last year (October 9!) was, hopefully, an anomaly. More often it's right at the end of Rocktober. But with a little luck, a prolonged Indian summer could roll on into early November. That would mean that 2010 would be the vintage of the century, at least for a year or two.ReplyDelete
Trey, thanks for the comparison info with 2008. Very interesting. Will definitely take you up on the offer to check out the rest of the 2008 vintage wines when I'm out in Walla Walla for Fall Release. Go grapes!ReplyDelete
PaulG, very good point about the benefits of diversification of vineyard sources. Haven't heard from many folks in the Columbia Gorge area about how their grapes are doing at this point but they are definitely a bit exposed.ReplyDelete
I have a friend who is starting out as a winemaker. When I asked him how his fruit was looking this year and he said it was a bit concerned that it was behind. I told him that the correct answer was that it was the 'best he's seen' and 'vintage of the century.' He'll learn!
CindyW, yikes! Thanks for the heads up.ReplyDelete
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In short, netbooks are gone, Ultrabooks aren't selling as well as they could be, and things with touchscreens are succeeding at the expense of more "traditional" computers. IDC's report spends much more time blaming Windows 8 for the decline, going on to say that it "appears to have slowed the market" rather than supplying the sales bump that new Windows versions have provided in the past. But Windows 8 is certainly not the only culprit.
The two biggest losers (both worldwide and in the US) were HP and Dell, whose global shipments were down 23.7 and 10.9 percent from the first quarter last year, respectively (or, in hard numbers, a drop of about four million units for HP and about one million units for Dell). These numbers are almost certainly made worse by ongoing corporate issues at both companies: HP's issues are numerous and well-documented, while Dell is trying to buy the company back from the shareholders while simultaneously making an IBM-like pivot from being a consumer hardware company to a software-and-services company.
By comparison, Lenovo has been running smoothly, and hasn't wavered in its commitment to the PC market. As such, its shipments stayed level worldwide at 11.7 million, and actually increased 13 percent (1.1 million) in the US—it was the only company listed to do so, though PC makers not in the top five for each territory are all lumped together, so data for smaller companies couldn't be analyzed. This wasn't enough to stem the losses from the rest of the PC makers, but since Lenovo is selling the same Windows 8 as everyone else, their performance shows that it's possible to do well selling the new operating system.
There's also Apple, a company whose sales should be positively affected (if anything) by a negative reaction to Windows 8. The company's worldwide sales aren't enough to put it in the top five, but its US sales are down 7.5 percent (some 110,000 units) from last year. The difference here is that IDC counts neither iOS nor Android devices as PCs—while Apple's Mac sales may be depressed, its iPad sales are going to more than make up for them. This is also applicable for PC makers who also make successful Android phones and tablets, Samsung and Asus among them.
As for the other PC makers, Acer is down 31.3 percent (1.8 million units) worldwide, Asus is down 19.2 percent (1.1 million units) worldwide, and everyone else is down a combined 10 percent (3.7 million units) worldwide. Asus, Acer, Toshiba, and many of these other companies are more active in the consumer market and in inexpensive devices like netbooks and low-end laptops—these devices are going to be particularly susceptible to cannibalization from tablets, and are generally more volatile than the businesses that HP, Dell, and Lenovo all cater to with many of their products.
IDC's numbers make two things clear: the first is that consumers and businesses are going to notice and respond when your company acts like it might pull out of the PC market, as evinced by Dell's and HP's numbers especially. The second is that if you make PCs but you haven't also been able to gain a toehold in tablets or phones, you may have a harder time of it going forward. If the PC market continues to contract, it's only going to become more competitive.
Looking ahead to the next quarter, we know that Intel is due to release new chips based on the "Haswell" architecture soon, and with those chips will come most of the PC makers' second wave of Windows 8 systems. There's a chance that these new chips (and the new designs they help to enable) will be able to convince more people to buy new PCs.
However, buying a new computer because of new hardware just isn't as necessary as it once was. Windows 8 requires no more horsepower to run than did Windows 7, which in turn would run on just about anything that would run 2006's Windows Vista. Some 38 percent of Internet users are apparently still perfectly happy with the twelve-year-old Windows XP. Windows 8, cannibalization by tablets, and corporate instability aren't going to make the situation any better, but the fact of the matter is that most people seem content with the computers they already have.


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Sunday, 10 February 2013 09:16 PM EST
The twister traveled down one of Hattiesburg's main streets and mangled homes, commercial buildings and structures on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Emergency officials said at least 10 people were injured in surrounding Forrest County and three were hurt to the west in Marion County, but they weren't aware of any deaths.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said it appears that a single tornado caused the damage in those two counties and Lamar County. Hundreds of homes are damaged in Forrest County, along with a couple dozen in the other two.
Flynn said the sheer scope of the damage was slowing the assessment of damage.
"The problem is, it was so strong that there's so much debris that there's a lot of areas they haven't been able to get to yet," he said.
On the campus of the university, trees were snapped in half around the heavily damaged Alumni House where part of the roof was ripped away. Windows in a nearby building were blown out, and heavy equipment worked to clear streets nearby in a heavy rain after the worst of the weather had passed.
The university released a statement saying no one was hurt but that it was under a state of emergency, anyone away from campus should stay away until further notice.
East of campus, 47-year-old Cindy Bullock was at home with her husband and dog, a terrier mix named Vinnie, when she heard the tornado coming. They ran to a hallway and covered their heads. It wasn't long before the windows in the kitchen and bedroom exploded. The storm stripped all the shingles off the roof and left holes in it, while knocking over a large pine tree in the yard.
After dark, the Bullocks were trying to arrange their stuff inside so it wouldn't get wet from the dripping water.
"I just looked out the window and I heard the rumbling. It sounded like a train. We ran to the hall, and the kitchen windows and the windows in the bedroom exploded. It happened pretty fast," she said.
There were large trees blocking the road all through her neighborhood, and several of the houses were hit by falling trees. Her friend was staying with them after the friend's apartment took a direct hit from a falling tree.
Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee says 10 or 15 people were injured by the tornado that slammed Hattiesburg and other parts of the county — but none of the injuries was serious.
He says, "Most of our injuries have been walking wounded."
To the west, Marion County emergency director Aaron Greer says three injuries have been reported in the community of Pickwick, about seven miles south of Columbia. He says two people were taken to hospitals, but the third didn't have the injury examined.
Greer says one mobile home was destroyed, three other structures have major damage and several have minor damage.
Gov. Phil Bryant plans to go to Hattiesburg on Monday to check out damage in the city and at USM, his alma mater, spokesman Mick Bullock said.
On Sunday night, John and Katherine Adams were cleaning up around their one-story white house where the storm punched holes in the roof, busted windows and completely destroyed the back porch. The couple was at home with their 7- and 3-year-old daughters when the tornado passed next to their house.
All through the neighborhood, houses and vehicles were damaged by falling trees.
"We're safe, and that's all that matters," said Katherine Adams, 46.
John Adams, who's in the building supply business, said he was surprised to see broken boards that appeared to be from new construction in his yard because there are no homes being built nearby.
"We've got stuff around here; I don't even know where it came from," he said.
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The United States Senator who fiercely opposed Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal is back in the trenches again, this time inveighing against AT&T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile USA.
"Americans gather their information about the world, purchase products and services, work, and communicate largely through the wired and wireless information infrastructure," Senator Al Franken's (D-MN) 24-page letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice contends.
"Allowing two companies to control which websites and applications are available to consumers and what content will stream at a faster speed would be very risky. We should not let an effective duopoly dictate the rules of the road for wireless networks, and I fear that will happen if this merger is approved."
The FCC and DoJ have been entrusted with considering the proposed $39 billion union. Franken pretty much throws the book at the idea. His letter disputes AT&T arguments that the telco needs T-Mobile's network resources to roll out 4G broadband to most of the country. And he suggests that the marriage would stifle innovation, cause job losses, raise retail prices, and undermine the prospects for effective net neutrality rules.
The merger would also cripple competition in the national wireless market, allowing AT&T and Verizon to exclude rivals, the Senator insists. "It would create an unreasonable risk to the economy to entrust too much power over such a crucial industry to a company that has a history of market domination."
Troubling steps
Franken's missive follows a series of mixed signals from his political party. About a week ago three House Democrats issued a statement calling the merger "a troubling backward step in federal public policy." They were joined a day later by Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI). But other Democrats, such as North Carolina Representative G.K. Butterfield and Gene Green of Texas, support the merger—as does the traditionally Democratic-leaning Communications Workers of America.
The latest statement also comes following the FCC's temporary suspension of its AT&T/T-Mobile merger review process. Last week the Commission announced that it had been informed by AT&T that the telco has developed "new models" to "bolster its arguments concerning the size of the efficiencies made possible by the merger as weighed against the potential anti-competitive effects."
As a consequence of that disclosure, the agency announced that it had stopped its "informal 180-day clock" on the merger review "until we have the information required to evaluate these models."
AT&T filed economic analysis comments on Monday, but Franken obviously isn't watching the clock to make his views known. His letter contends that in an environment in which AT&T and Verizon would serve 82 percent of national, post-paid wireless subscribers, Sprint's days as the third market share carrier would be numbered, even further concentrating the industry.
"I also fear it would only be a matter of months before Sprint is so marginalized that it becomes an acquisition target," following a merger, Franken warns:
Handset manufacturers and technology innovators would not be interested in developing hardware that only Sprint could use, and Sprint's customers would face significant problems when traveling because their handsets would be technically unable to roam on other networks. In addition to these disadvantages, AT&T and Verizon would be in a very strong position to use their superior resources and spectrum to push Sprint out of the business.
Jobs and prices
The letter treads more cautiously when it comes assessing the impact that the merger might have on jobs in the telecommunications sector. Franken acknowledges the CWA's arguments that AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile could create "as many as 96,000 jobs," and give the latter telco's workers an opportunity to gain collective bargaining rights (since the larger company recognizes unions).
"I care a tremendous amount about creating and protecting American jobs, and if this merger is approved, I recognize that T-Mobile workers will finally have the benefit of union representation, which is long overdue," Franken notes. But the statement also expresses concern that the acquisition could instead result in the termination of jobs.
The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile would likely involve thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of layoffs. Despite having been asked directly by me and several other members of Congress to provide estimates of the number of layoffs AT&T is expecting to result from the merger, AT&T has refused to release this information. According to recent reports, AT&T employs 266,590 people and T-Mobile employs 37,795. AT&T has calculated that it will reap $3 billion per year in "operational savings" and "cost synergies" as a result of the merger. While it will not discuss what portion of these "synergies" comes from the elimination of jobs, I think it is fair to assume that layoffs constitute a substantial portion of the cost savings AT&T is promising to its investors.
And whatever gains in employment status were made would be overshadowed by what Franken sees as a major consequence of the merger, a "significant rise" in mobile subscription and retail device prices. The logic here is that T-Mobile offers "consistently lower" prices than AT&T. Thus the smaller telco functions as a competitive check, preventing AT&T's rates from "creeping ever higher."
The letter cites a think tank study suggesting that retail prices could double for both T-Mobile and AT&T customers following a merger.
"Without T-Mobile, the market would have no effective check on price increases or technological stagnation by AT&T and Verizon," Franken's section on consumer prices concludes. "Sprint places very little pressure on the prices of AT&T and Verizon, because it charges only marginally less than they do. The elimination of the lowest cost national wireless option likely explains why so many T-Mobile customers are opposed to this deal."
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So Many Sockets, So Little Time
This year promises to see product standardization finally lending order to the diverse array of compact fluorescent lamps. That seemed to be the most significant point made at the third annual conference of the California Compact Fluorescent Consortium, a utility and industry partnership to promote energy-efficient lighting technologies. Participants at the conference, held November 4-6 in San Diego, debated issues ranging from lamp and fixture design to conservation program measurement and evaluation. One of the hottest topics concerned specifications for energy-efficient lighting that will soon be adopted by utilities. Their purchasing patterns will determine what kinds of compact fluorescent lamps manufacturers produce.
Compact fluorescents, popular in utility demand-side management conservation efforts, have the potential of changing the physical properties of the electricity they use. This alteration of power quality is measured by total harmonic distortion (THD) and power factor. The lower the THD and the higher the power factor, the less detrimental effect a lamp has on power quality. Experts have continued to argue whether a service grid filled with compact fluorescent lamps, particularly those outfitted with the first generation of electronic ballasts, may be poor power quality culprits. These lamps draw current in bursts which could wreak havoc both with performance of devices on the same electrical circuit and with power transmission services. Other devices may also contribute to the problem, especially computers and motors with variable speed controls. While an appeal of the magnetic ballasts in compacts is that they generally exhibit lower THD than electronic ballasts, their power factor may be lower too. Moreover, consumers complain that magnetically ballasted lamps are big and heavy, warm-up slowly, and contain trace amounts of radioactive materials.
Three researchers at the conference presented differing research results on power quality. Dave Pileggi of New England Electric System (NEES) designed a computer model which showed significant power quality degradation in a hypothetical system. Rudy Verderber of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory presented measured data which showed only minor effects from a building totally outfitted with electronically ballasted fluorescent lamps (not only compact fluorescents). Jim Bemis of Sacramento Municipal Utility District saturated a residential neighborhood served by a single power feeder (through a 75 kilovolt transformer) with electronically ballasted compact fluorescents and found little measurable effect on power quality at that scale.
The jury is still out on the magnitude of the problem. According to Chris Granda of NEES, some at the conference challenged the SMUD study, maintaining that the 75 kilovolt transformer feeding the neighborhood in the study was large enough to absorb distortions, and thus capable of masking potential power quality problems. (Various feeders exhibit different levels of distortion in power quality.) Verderber expressed concern that specifications may be applied without sufficient research to determine what the actual requirements should be. Meanwhile, most agree that the effects on and by household electronics need further study, especially with myriad new devices reaching consumers annually.
In light of caveats like these and other uncertainties, utility representatives tend to agree that it is prudent to encourage manufacturers to improve power quality characteristics while enhancing the more tangible performance aspects. As high volume purchasers of compact fluorescents, utilities can influence how lamps are designed. Some have established their own benchmarks, typically a power factor of at least 0.9 and a THD of less than 33%--corresponding with Green Seal's Class A specifications. On the other hand, NEES, for one, is using an even more stringent THD level--25%. NEES fears that products designed only to Class A parameters will not exhibit sufficiently low THD to satisfy its needs. Presently NEES conservation programs are limited to magnetically ballasted lamps, reports Granda.
In response to utility demands for lamps that suit their hardware as well as their consumers, Green Seal finalized its long-anticipated specifications in cooperation with the California Compact in time for the conference. However, according to Granda, this may present a problem: If utilities jump on the bandwagon and adopt the Green Seal guidelines, NEES and others may find that manufacturers no longer produce the higher quality lamps they need.
The specter of lighting specifications propelled at least two manufacturers, Lights of America and Beacon, to design a compact fluorescent featuring integrated circuitry that eliminates power quality problems. Enertron is not far behind, promising a dimmable 27 W lamp with a power factor of nearly 1.0 and a THD less than 20%. When questioned in the manufacturers panel, most--but not all--companies reported they were developing compact fluorescent lamps with power quality characteristics that meet Green Seal's Class A specifications.
-- Judy Jennings
Judy Jennings is a senior research associate at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and a consultant in the energy and environment consulting firm, CK and Associates in Albany, Calif.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Mayer, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson are among the stars set to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Mayer will perform in honor of Albert King with Gary Clark Jr., then induct the late bluesman. Aguilera and Hudson will salute Donna Summer. Foo Fighters Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins will induct Rush and hall of fame member Don Henley will induct Randy Newman at the April 18 ceremony in Los Angeles.
Public Enemy and Heart will also enter the hall of fame, along with lifetime achievement award winners Quincy Jones and Lou Adler. More performers and presenters will be announced later.
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It has been nine years since IBM exited the personal computer business by selling its PC brands to the Lenovo Group. Now IBM apparently wants to get out of the "commodity" computing business altogether and is looking to Lenovo again.
The Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is in negotiations to sell its x86 architecture server business to Lenovo. Lenovo issued a "clarification statement" to stockholders this morning saying that the company "is in preliminary negotiations with a third party in connection with a potential acquisition. As at the date of this announcement, no material terms concerning the Potential Acquisition have been agreed and the Company has not entered into any definitive agreement in relation to the Potential Acquisition."
Lenovo is registered in Hong Kong and has a headquarters in North Carolina not far from IBM's Durham campus. It has already surpassed Dell to take the number two position in PC market share behind Hewlett-Packard, and a move into the server business could help Lenovo compete more broadly against HP and Dell in the business market.
IBM, for its part, would unload a business that has been a drag on its profits. On April 18, IBM reported a one percent drop in profits and quarterly sales figures that missed forecasts by $1.3 billon. IBM's System x server sales dropped by 9 percent, dragging hardware profits down to a $405 million loss before taxes, while its mainframe sales had increased 7 percent.
IBM's troubles are indicative of bad news for the whole technology business, according to Deutsche Bank Securities Analyst Chris Whitmore. AllThingsD's Arik Hesseldahl reports that Whitmore wrote in a note to clients, "The IBM miss is a decidedly negative read through for the entire IT hardware segment and we are incrementally more cautious on the sector."


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During rough year, Federer starts well at US Open
At this point in his career, Roger Federer recognizes the importance of a little extra work.
That's why the owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles, and the man who spent more weeks ranked No. 1 than any other, was out there on a U.S. Open practice court late Tuesday afternoon, putting in some training time shortly after finishing off a 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory over 62nd-ranked Grega Zemlja of Slovenia in the first round.
At 32 and holding his lowest ranking, No. 7, in more than a decade, and coming off a stunningly early exit at the previous major tournament — one of a series of newsworthy losses lately — Federer is OK with making some concessions. He insists his passion for tennis is still there.
"I'm in a good spot right now," Federer said. "I want to enjoy it as long as it lasts."
He made it sound, though, as if it isn't as easy to enjoy things the way his results have been going.
Federer entered Tuesday 32-11, a .744 winning percentage that doesn't sound too bad, until you consider his career mark at the start of this season was .816, and he's had years where he went 81-4 (.953). and 92-5 (.948). He's only won one tournament in 2013, which would be great for some guys, but Federer topped 10 titles three times, and hasn't won fewer than three in any season since 2001.
"Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more. You just like winning, being on the front page, lifting trophies, doing comfortable press conferences. It's nice. But that doesn't mean you really, actually love it, love it," said Federer, whose streak of 36 consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals ended with a second-round defeat at Wimbledon against an opponent ranked 116th. "That maybe shines through maybe more in times when you don't play that well. For me, I knew it — winning or losing, practice court or match court — that I love it."
As fan favorite Federer took the first step toward a possible quarterfinal meeting with nemesis Rafael Nadal, an unknown teen from the United States made a Grand Slam breakthrough Tuesday. Victoria Duval, a 17-year-old qualifier who is ranked 296th, pulled off quite an upset, eliminating 2011 U.S. Open winner Sam Stosur 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
"A big moment, big stage. Not easy closing any match out, let alone a past U.S. Open champion," Duval said. "So happy I did it, though."
Duval jumped up and down with arms aloft after pounding a forehand winner to convert her fourth match point. And why not? She had never beaten a player ranked higher than 69th, never even faced one in the top 20, and never won a Grand Slam match.
"I know she didn't play her best today, and this is the best I've played in my career, so I'm really excited," Duval told the Louis Armstrong Stadium crowd. "I just tried to stay in the moment."
Stosur was unhappy with the way she played, including 10 double-faults and a total of 56 unforced errors, 21 more than Duval.
"I'm not going to be a sore loser and say she didn't do anything," the 11th-seeded Stosur said. "But, you know, I think I certainly helped her out there today, that's for sure."
Other seeded women on the way out were No. 17 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 20 Nadia Petrova and No. 31 Klara Zakopalova.
No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, the 2012 U.S. Open runner-up and a two-time Australian Open winner, needed 10 minutes and six break points to take the first game against 99th-ranked Dinah Pfizenmaier, then dominated the rest of the way en route to a 6-0, 6-0 victory.
"There are things, you know, I feel like should be better," Azarenka said. "But overall, it's a good start."
Now there's an understatement. Her 65-minute match in Arthur Ashe Stadium came after top-seeded Novak Djokovic began his bid for a second U.S. Open title, and seventh major trophy overall, with nearly as swift and simple a result, beating 112th-ranked Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.
"I played every point like it's a match point," said Djokovic, who recently added former top-10 player Wojtek Fibak as a coaching consultant.
Other straight-set winners included No. 5 Tomas Berdych and No. 10 Milos Raonic. On a day that American men went 5-2, led by No. 13 John Isner and No. 26 Sam Querrey, a handful of seeded players made quick departures. No. 14 Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last month, was the most surprising to go, although he was treated by a trainer for a painful back during a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 loss to 247th-ranked qualifier Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina.
"It was like someone puts a knife through your lower back," Janowicz said.
Janowicz is a volatile character, and that was on full display Tuesday. He pounded two balls in anger into the stands. He swatted one serve underhand. He chucked his racket. He argued with the chair umpire.
Other losers included No. 15 Nicolas Almagro, No. 25 Grigor Dimitrov and No. 28 Juan Monaco.
Federer says he doesn't fret about being seeded seventh at Flushing Meadows, a year after being seeded No. 1. Not since 2002, when he was 13th, had Federer been so low at the U.S. Open.
That didn't really affect Tuesday's opponent in Arthur Ashe Stadium. All that mattered to Zemlja, who owns fewer Grand Slam match wins, eight, than Federer owns Grand Slam titles, was that he was facing what he considered an impossible task.
"If he's the seventh seed or fourth seed or first seed, for me, that's totally irrelevant," Zemlja said. "He achieved so much. He's the best player of all time. So I don't think people can actually say something (negative) about the way he's playing. You're losing matches, you're winning matches — that's just tennis, and I'm sure he's going to perform better than maybe he has done in the last few tournaments."
Difficult as things have been for Federer, he certainly remains capable of summoning his best strokes. A bad lower back has bothered him this season, and he's experimented with a larger racket head, but with his old equipment in hand Tuesday, a healthy-looking Federer collected 35 winners and only 16 unforced errors.
Wearing neon-pink-and-gray shoes with a "5'' etched inside a silhouette of the U.S. Open trophy on the right heel — the number of titles he's won in New York from 2004-08 — Federer won 20 of the 21 points he played at the net and 62 of the 80 points he served. To cap the first set, Federer spun a 95 mph ace into a corner. To cap the second, he hit a 118 mph service winner that forced Zemlja into a backhand return so wild that it sailed directly into a guest box in the stands, where Federer's agent happened to catch the ball on the fly. And to cap the third, Federer pressed forward for a swinging forehand volley winner.
"I decided ... to play aggressive," Federer summed up. "I was happy the way I played, you know, overall. I mean, it's a first round, after all."


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The Gibson section of Valley Stream passed the recent 1-percent-chance-in-100-years test with Hurricane "Frankenstorm" Sandy and the nor'easter with no flooding and no property damage to my Gibson Boulevard home. The only properties in Valley Stream that had flooding from Hurricane Sandy and the nor'easter were homes in North Woodmere whose property is located with Jamaica Bay in their backyard, but not Gibson.
Gibson and the rest of the Village of Valley Stream south of Sunrise Highway was fraudulently placed in FEMA's "AE" high-risk flood based on a Suffolk County Base Flood Elevation Study from Fire Island to Montauk Point in 2009. We in Gibson and Valley Stream have been waiting three long years to have this error corrected.
I am asking FEMA to please kindly and immediately put our properties in Gibson back into the "X" non-flood zone where they belong.
Alan Schachter
Valley Stream


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A Boulder man was one of three killed in what authorities say was a botched marijuana deal in northern California.
The bodies of three men were found Tuesday in a cabin at the end of a rural road in Forestville, north of San Francisco. Authorities identified the victims as Todd Klarkowski, 42, of Boulder, Raleigh Butler, 26, of Petaluma, Calif., and Richard Lewin, 46, of Huntington, N.Y.
Butler's mother lived at the home, said Sonoma County Sheriff's Lt. Dennis O'Leary, but she was out of town at the time of the shootings.
O'Leary said Lewin and Klarkowski flew into town apparently to buy a large amount of marijuana.
"The alleged shooter or shooters were delivering the merchandise, and somehow along the way three people were shot," he said.
The bodies were discovered in a bedroom by Butler's brother and his girlfriend, who had become concerned after they could not reach Butler by phone for hours, O'Leary said.
No marijuana was grown on the property where the shooting occurred, officials said.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that detectives on Wednesday were chasing down clues to identify the suspect or suspects, who left behind no weapons, no cash and only a tiny amount of pot.
The Press Democrat said marijuana has been at the center of 22 killings in the North Coast area of California in the past decade, with seven of those taking place in Sonoma County.
"Most of our violent crime is related to marijuana, the theft of marijuana, the growing of marijuana," O'Leary told the Press Democrat.
Boulder County Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney Ken Kupfner said he could not say whether Klarkowski was the subject of an active investigation here.
However, he has seen a number of cases in which defendants were bringing large quantities of marijuana from California to Colorado, despite the widespread availability of the drug here.
"In a number of large-scale investigations we've conducted, there is a surprising amount of marijuana being brought in from California, and that is because there is a significant price difference," Kupfner said, speaking generally and not about the possible motives of Klarkowski and Lewin. "It is much cheaper in California, so for people looking to make a profit, they are buying it in California and bringing it to Colorado."
Kupfner said some Boulder County homicides have also been marijuana-related, despite the drug's relatively benign reputation. However, it has been several years since there has been a drug-related homicide in Boulder County.
Klarkowski was arrested on drug charges in 1999 and served six months in prison, according to Colorado court records. He was originally sentenced to two years of probation, but the probation was revoked.
Court records do not show any other drug charges against Klarkowski. He was arrested in 2006 on suspicion of domestic violence, stalking and harassment, but the case did not go to trial. Court records indicate the charges were dismissed in 2008.
Court records also show that two debt collection companies filed suit against Klarkowski, one in 2008 for $5,786 and another in 2009 for $6,487, and judgments were entered against Klarkowski in both cases.
Friends and relatives of Klarkowski could not be reached Thursday. A woman who answered the phone at his apartment declined to speak with the Camera.
The Associated Press and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat contributed to this report.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A primer on firewood: Cost, variety and safety
Who doesn't love the smell of a wood fire puffing out of the chimney on a cold, wintery day? And then there is the crackle that can nearly put you to sleep, with light bouncing off the walls and heat warming the room. Lighting a fire is one of the coziest things we do when we're in the mood to relax.
It's probably in our DNA, considering that the earliest fire pit ever discovered is 1 million years old, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
And although wood fires were a necessity a century or so ago, they are now considered a luxury, if you ask Tom Rogers of Woodhill Firewood in Irvine, Calif. Not everyone can afford a fine pile of pricey hickory for a hot, crackling fire. The best firewoods are expensive.
"Premium firewood is anything that is cut, split, seasoned and ready to burn," he said.
The longer the distance that cut wood travels to the point where it is sold, the pricier it is. Hardwood is more expensive than soft. And orchard woods used for cooking cost a pretty penny. Rogers knows all about wood; he has been in the firewood business 46 years.
Fred De St. Jean at Lumberjax in Costa Mesa, Calif., said most firewood dealers like him offer a mix of local woods, which in California include eucalyptus, ash and carrotwood. "My standard is usually 75 percent hardwood and 25 percent soft," he said, suggesting these are the best buys.
While all wood is the same when it comes to composition, it is how soft or hard the wood is and the way it is split and dried that affect its behavior in the fireplace.
• If you are buying firewood by the bundle or cord, the cost can depend on many factors. Don't expect a standard.
• A full cord of wood is a tight stack at 128 cubic feet and measures 4 feet deep, 4 feet high and 8 feet long. Make sure you get the full amount you're paying for.
• Softwoods cost half that of hardwoods.
• "Cooking" woods go for a premium price.
• Location plays a part. The farther the wood travels, the more it costs.
• Fully dried firewood costs more than green. But you can buy green wood in the spring and dry it yourself to use the following year.
• Size matters. Smaller, proper splits of random sizes cost more than larger, unsplit logs.
Here are some varieties listed in order of heat value, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. The harder the firewood, the longer it burns. Consider buying a mix: softwoods light fast, but hardwoods burn longer. Firewood, from hard to soft:
Super-premium orchard woods such as apple, orange, almond, pecan, walnut and olive are usually used as cooking woods.
End pieces are fine for camp and beach fires.
Alert: Never burn Christmas trees in your fireplace — they are highly combustible and can explode.
• Remove large piles of ash before you start a fire, but leave an inch on the bottom to insulate the fire box.
• Make sure the damper is open.
• Never burn anything in your fireplace except untreated firewood and kindling.
• Proper kindling includes pine cones, paper, wood scraps, twigs and fire starters.
• Never burn wood that is not properly seasoned. Green wood causes flammable creosote buildup in your flue.
• Start with two to three pieces of firewood stacked with an inch gap between each piece for air flow. A single log is harder to light than a small pile.
• Never let a fire smolder overnight. Smoldering fires clog the flue with creosote and release harmful carbon monoxide into the room. The EPA recommends leaving your glass fireplace cover closed during use to limit carbon monoxide in the room.
Assuming you have a permit to cut firewood in the wild, or you are cutting wood from your own property, here are a few tips:
• You'll need a storage area at least 16 feet long for a full cord of wood.
• Make sure firewood is cut to the right length — usually 3 inches shorter than the width of your fireplace or wood stove.
• Split the wood before stacking to speed the drying process. Wet wood is easier to split than dry wood.
• Aim for split sizes from 3 to 6 inches measured across the piece.
• Stack the wood in alternate directions for better circulation.
• Store firewood off the ground to improve the drying process.
• Cover the top of the pile loosely, but leave the sides exposed.
• Make sure your firewood is dry before you use it. Fresh-cut wood contains 50 percent moisture. Fully matured firewood contains 20 percent or less moisture.
• Let firewood cure for at least six months before you use it. Hardwoods can take up to a year to dry properly.
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• Do not store firewood next to your house. It can attract rats and termites and help fuel a house fire.


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Yreka Miner Power: Lending a hand to Yreka High sports programs
For a number of years, Yreka Miner Power has done their part in assisting the sports programs at Yreka High School.
Each year, the non-profit organization donates to Miner sports programs and helps pay for things like equipment, team jackets, or helping with meals and rooms when teams have to stay overnight for games and events.
Coming up next week is the group's biggest fundraiser each year, the 18th Annual Hearts of the Miners Dinner Dance, which is set for Feb. 2 at the Yreka Community Center. The majority of the funds raised for Miner Power each year come from the dinner.
In the past year, the group has given out $6,500 worth of college scholarships and spent over $14,600 on Yreka High sports programs.
With budget cuts taking place, Candice Amens, president of Miner Power said that it's vital for Miner Power to assist where they can and help the high school sports team.
"It's really needed in the school district," she said "The need has grown."
Amens said that for her and all those who are part of Miner Power, it comes down to helping the athletic programs at the high school and the kids that take part.
Sports are a vital part of the community and is a positive outlet for local kids to take part in, Amens said.
Around 300 people are expected to take part in the dinner event this year. Anette Hoff, treasurer of Miner Power said the event is quite popular each year.
"Last year we had a lot of people and everyone had fun," she said.
A popular part of the evening is the auctioning off of different baskets full of items from golf and spa packages to baskets that feature rifles and shotguns donated by Don's Sporting Goods of Yreka.
Amens said that countless local businesses have supported Miner Power and said their help and having them donate items to auction off at the dinner are greatly appreciated.
"I've been overwhelmed with the support from everyone," she said.
The event will feature dancing until midnight, a buffet dinner and a dessert auction along with a no-host bar.
Tickets are $25 and are available at Scott Valley Bank in Yreka, Don's Sporting Goods, Medical Center Pharmacy, Variations Salon, Siskiyou Central Credit Union, and the Yreka Chamber of Commerce, or by calling 340-1441 or 842-2316.
Amens said the group is always looking for new members. Miner Power normally meets the first Monday of each month at the high school. There is no meeting in February. Meetings will resume in March. Amens said folks are more than welcome to meetings and encouraged community members to come and see what Miner Power is about. For more information on Miner Power call Candice Amens at 436-2266, or 340-1441.
Below is a list of what Miner Power has done for the Yreka High School Athletic Programs over the last three years.
$4,750 - Scholarships
$1,295 - Softball (warmup jackets)
$600 - Snowsports (meals & lodging - finals)
$50 - Tennis (meals - finals)
$50 - Track (meals - finals)
$1,281 - Dance (warm-ups)
$1,500 - Wrestling (startup equipment)
$150 - Swim Team (meals - finals)
$1,623 - Boys Basketball (bags)
$600 - Cross Country (meals - finals)
$1,584 - Soccer (bags)
$6,500 - Scholarships
$770 - Dance Team (meals - competitions)
$165 - Cheer (meals)
$1,160 - Baseball (misc. equipment)
$1,000 - Snowsports (meals - finals)
$2,484 - Softball (misc. equipment)
$527 - Soccer (warmups & underarmour)
$510 - Softball (meals)
$1,000 - YHS (shed improvements)
$1,200 (HUDL program)
$1,750 - Baseball (pitching machine)
$2,000 - Volleyball (warmups)
$1,258 - Softball (misc. equipment)
$180 - Swim Team (meals - finals)
$3,274 - Tennis (backboards)
$1,000 - Cross Country (meals & lodging - finals)
$5,750 - Scholarships
$60 - Cheer (sweatshirts)
$500 - Dance Team (warmups)
$50 - Cross Country – NAL (meals & lodging)
$220 - Baseball (meals - playoffs in Chico)
$81 - Tennis (NAL patches)
$1,091 - Baseball (spirit bus to Butte College for playoff game)
$2,000 - Volleyball (chairs)
$1790 - Softball/Baseball (drag & groomer for field)
$1,000 - Track/Cross Country (timer & flags)
$400 - Football (HUDL program)
$750 - Yreka High School (first aid kits)
$1,754 - Football (gear bags)
$45 - Tennis (meals - finals)
$500 - Football (meals - playoffs)
$400 - Soccer (goalie gloves & pants)
$3,800 - Snowsports (team jackets)
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Peter Chianca: Guidelines for the end of the world
"Inmates in a women's prison near the Chinese border are said to have experienced a 'collective mass psychosis' so intense that their wardens summoned a priest to calm them. In a factory town east of Moscow, panicked citizens stripped shelves of matches, kerosene, sugar and candles. A huge Mayan-style archway is being built — out of ice — on Karl Marx Street in Chelyabinsk in the south."
– New York Times, Dec. 1, 2012
A message from the U.S. Government on the pending end of the world:
Dear U.S. Citizen:
I am Fred Cranston, associate assistant director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). As you have no doubt heard, the world is scheduled to end on Friday, Dec. 21. We know this because the Mayan calendar ends on that date, and the Mayans have never been wrong about anything. This is what makes them so insufferable at dinner parties.
Ha ha! Just a little Mayan humor to help ease the tension that's bound to go along with knowing the world is coming to an end. I have been asked to write this letter to help prepare Americans for our impending annihilation, partially because of my experience in disaster mitigation, and also because all the other officials are already sequestered on the government's secret fleet of high-tech flying arks.
Anyway, it is our goal to avoid the mass end-times panic that has already begun in Russia and other areas of the world. Remember, just because the earth is going to open up and swallow us, or we're going to be incinerated by giant solar fireballs, or the earth's polarity is going to reverse, propelling us all into space, is no reason to be uncouth. (This means you, Arkansas!)
With that in mind, we ask that you follow the following simple guidelines:
1) Please do not hoard matches, kerosene, sugar and candles, because none of those things will help once you've been incinerated by a giant solar fireball (and in the case of kerosene, it will probably just make things worse). Instead, consider using the food and resources you currently have in your home, because they're bound to spoil quickly after the earth becomes a barren, burning wasteland.
2) Trying to avoid gaping, fiery holes in the earth by driving around them as they open up is not advisable, no matter how feasible that appears in the movies. For one thing, those are typically trained drivers on a closed course; and also, the gaping, fiery holes are added in later using a computer. You're much better off standing very, very still, and hoping the holes go around you.
3) Please be advised that building tremendous Mayan structures out of ice or other materials is unlikely to stave off the impending apocalypse. That said, I, for one, welcome our new Mayan overlords.
4) We strongly recommend against using your last few weeks on earth attempting to live out your wildest fantasies, particularly if they involve "maxing out" your credit cards, telling off your boss, professing a long unrequited love, or public nudity. On the off chance the world doesn't end as predicted, any or all of these actions could prove personally detrimental, or at least embarrassing. Consider perhaps some more staid activities, like Jenga.
5) Finally, even though we've been unable to pinpoint exactly how the world is going to end on Dec. 21, we feel a need to deny the prevailing rumor that mankind will be wiped out in a zombie apocalypse, which is just silly. However, you should plan to have some sharpened shovels around to chop the tops of their heads off, just in case.
In conclusion, we hope these guidelines will help you adequately prepare for the end of civilization, and if you have any other questions or concerns between now and then, feel free to contact your local FEMA office. A representative who couldn't fit on one of the arks will be happy to assist you.
Fred Cranston, FEMA
Peter Chianca is editor in chief for GateHouse Media New England's north-of-Boston newspapers and websites and author of "Glory Days: Springsteen's Greatest Albums." Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/pchianca.


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Sandé, Mumford Win Big At Brits
British music put on a brash, confident show at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, celebrating a resurgent industry whose bands and artists are topping charts around the globe.
Winners ranged from established acts such as Coldplay and Adele to world-conquering boy band One Direction, who won in the new Global Success category.
One Direction's Louis Tomlinson called the prize "absolutely mind-blowing."
American artists Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey were among the non-British winners at a ceremony that embraced the mainstream while rewarding artists with distinctive personalities.
Surfing English folk singer Ben Howard and chanteuse Emeli Sande each won two awards.
Sande was named best British female artist and won the album of the year prize for her debut "Our Version of Events," which has been in the British charts for more than a year. Scotland-raised Sande got a big boost in 2012 when she performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
"This is a dream, really," said Sande, who beat Alt-J, Mumford & Sons, Plan B and Paloma Faith to the album prize.
She thanked everyone "who made me feel like I'm part of something much bigger."
Howard was named British breakthrough act and British male artist of the year.
"I'm not very good at speeches," the 25-year-old singer said, accurately — though he may have to get good at it if his career continues to take off.
Long derided as dull, the Brits have become a lively celebration of "Cool Britannia" music and style, featuring a dinner for hundreds of artists and industry figures followed by a televised concert and awards show for thousands of paying fans.
Hard rockers Muse opened the show at London's O2 Arena with a typically robust performance of their song "Supremacy"— all thundering music, dazzling light show and 60-piece orchestra. Other performers ranged from tween-pleasing One Direction to American artists Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake.
Timberlake, dapper in a tuxedo as he performed "Mirrors," was described by host James Corden, in a nod to Europe's horse meat scandal, as "95 percent beefcake with just a little touch of horse."
One Direction performed a mashup of post-punk classics "One Way or Another" and "Teenage Kicks," their single for Britain's Comic Relief charity.
Mumford & Sons were named best British group. The banjo-twanging band topped U.K. and U.S. charts with their second album "Babel," which was named album of the year at the Grammys earlier this month.
Soul singer Amy Winehouse — who died in July 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning — was among the other nominees for British female artist, eligible thanks to her posthumous "Lioness: Hidden Treasures" album. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, arrived for the awards ceremony at London's O2 Arena wearing a waistcoat emblazoned with a picture of his daughter.
Coldplay was named best British live act, beating nominees including The Rolling Stones, who celebrated their 50th anniversary with a series of sold-out shows last year.
Adele won the best British single prize for her James Bond theme "Skyfall." The soulful singer sent a message from Los Angeles, where she is rehearsing for Sunday's Academy Awards.
There was no repeat of last year, when she was cut-off mid-speech because the show was running late — an incident Corden referred to in mock-embarrassment several times.
The Black Keys were named best international group, while Del Rey took the trophy for international female solo artist. The U.S. singer, who began as an Internet sensation, won a breakthrough Brit award last year and on Wednesday thanked Britain for supporting her.
The international male trophy went to R&B star Frank Ocean, who said it was "definitely a long way from working fast food in New Orleans" — and was the only winner to thank artist Damien Hirst for creating the polka-dot Brit Awards statuette.
Style standouts included Swift, who performed "I Knew You Were Trouble" in a hoop-skirted white number — more wedding cake than wedding dress — that she shed to reveal black undergarments. Jessie J drew attention in a deeply low-cut black dress.
Most of the awards are chosen by more than 1,000 musicians, critics and record industry figures, with several decided by public vote.


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